Woot. I is back. Like anyone cares. Oh wells, as usual, Kingdom Hearts is not mine. I just borrow the people. I'd say something wittier but I'm tired. Blah.
Chapter 3
Ten seconds in Limbo and she knew she was in trouble.
"That… was quick," The words sounded slightly like a question, but the look in Sephiroth's eyes made her sure that he knew quite exactly why she was back so soon.
"Guess it was…"Sasha said shortly, although his look was making her wings tremble slightly.
"So, no-no, don't tell me, let me guess, you forgot?" Sephiroth narrowed his eyes at her.
"Forgot…? Aw, dammit!" Sasha exclaimed sarcastically, "You know, I don't know how I could! I mean, between getting nearly swallowed by a mass of heartless and having my leg bit off by a rabid shadow dog? To forget to look for the keybearer, really, how STUPID am I?!"
Stupid enough to say something as sarcastic as that to someone who was seething as much as Sephiroth was, Sasha thought. Before Sephiroth could form that anger into words, or worse, movements, Sasha turned around and dashed off, gripping the stone tightly.
"Be back in a flash!" She flashed away again, and appeared in the middle of the Second District's Courtyard. "Shit!"
Once again heartless started flowing from everywhere. Swinging her axe out, Sasha began to cut swaths through the sea of black. There were more than before, flowing and growing around her crazily, chittering in their strange language.
"Where in hell are they coming from?!" Sasha exclaimed through gritted teeth as her blade sliced two small heartless into nothingness. "And why so many?"
In a slight break, she managed to get a pretty good look around her and jumped backward onto one of the walkways on the sides of the courtyard. Just then a little, red heartless flew by, scarecrow-stick legs dangling down from its little jacket. It wore a little straw-like hat, and Sasha stared at it, mystified, as it did a little sparkly dance. It took her until the fireball was being shot at her to realize what was happening.
"AHHHH!" She dodged to the side, then turned to try to find the little heartless. Instead of the red one, she found and identical one, only wearing a little jacket of blue.
"Blue… blue… what would blue be?" Sasha said, realizing that she was probably being very stupid. The blue one danced now, and she dodged the blast of ice as it blew past her. "Ah, ice. Okay."
She dodged an attack from one of the little heartless that had appeared, and took off into the air. From her high perch on the wind, she managed to see where the blue and red heartless were fluttering about. They saw her at the same time, and dashed forward a little, stopping only to dance around and release their magic. Sasha dodged the attacks, and realizing it took them some time to do the dance, she dove in the next time they began and slashed viciously. They needed more hits than the regular blacks, but in another dive she finished them off.
Looking around again, she noticed that most of the heartless on the ground had disappeared, and the rest were walking around as if looking for something. Taking advantage of the enemy's sudden disinterest in her, Sasha flew over to a roof and landed. She sat for a little bit, then threw herself back with a cry of agitation.
"Kill? Why the hell do I have to do it?!" she muttered angrily. "I can't kill people… Now, if he were a heartless, or at least something evil, well then, I have no choice… But he's fighting the heartless too… But if I don't, Sephiroth will kill me. I don't want me to die. Grrrr… what do I do?"
She looked up at the sky, a sky so familiar yet so different from her own. There seemed to be less stars in this one, a lot less. She sighed.
"Can't anyone give me a sign?"
There was a flash in the stars, and suddenly the area next to her exploded into flames. She jumped up in terror just in time to have the next shot miss her.
"What the-" She was cut short by another blast nearly singeing her wings, and took off running across the roofs. The fireballs dogged her all the way, until she crashed up against a wall.
"Ow, damn!" She glanced around, and noticed an opening above her. Reaching up she pulled herself in and turned around to see what it was that was following her.
Greeting her sight was about two-dozen little red coated heartless. All giving her very mean looks.
"Heh…heh… um, sorry?" She managed to fall back into the darkness just as the fireballs blasted around the opening.
A few seconds later, she crashed onto her back, the fall wrenching her wings and knocking the breath out of her. The little flap that led to the dark passage slamming closed gently. With a groan she pulled herself up and looked around.
She was on a little balcony overlooking the Third District's courtyard. To her right on ground level was the entrance to the First district, to her left the entrance from the Second district. She put her hands on the balcony and heaved herself over, halfway down realizing she should have stretched her wings before doing something like that. As it was, the wrenched muscles in her wings decided to take a break and she landed heavily on all fours on the ground below.
"I'll kill myself one day…" Sasha muttered, standing up slowly and stretching her wings gingerly.
"See, I always thought wings were for flying…"
With a jump, Sasha looked around for danger, and saw Sora standing off to the side, a big grin on his face.
"Oh, shut up," She glared at him, and then realized there were more people there. A short duck was standing to the left of Sora, and a tall dog to the right.
"I'm kidding. Let me guess, you had a run in with the heartless too, didn't you?" Sora asked.
"Yeah. And those stupid ones with the red jackets tried to fry me." Sasha ran her fingers through one wing's feathers, straightening them out.
"Those are annoying…" Sora seemed to go nervous for a second, then continued, "Um, Sasha?"
"Yeah?" Sasha began on the other wing.
"Did you happen to see any other kids, a girl and a guy, anywhere?" Sora's voice got a little hopeful.
"Hmmmm," Sasha paused to think, "No, not around here. But I can keep an eye out for them. What're their names?"
"The girl's name is Kairi, and the guy is Riku," Sora looked a little defeated.
"Don't worry Sora, if I see them I'll be sure to tell you, or I'll try to bring them back." Sasha smiled at him. "I'm sure you'll find them."
At that moment something small and dark barreled towards them, followed by more.
"Aw, damn, heartless!" Sasha whipped out her axe, and out of the corner of her eye saw the others get ready to fight.
There was a mix of heartless, from the tiny black ones to ones that had helmets and claws. There were a few of the big fat ones who tried knocking everyone over.
It wasn't until the end of the battle that Sasha saw what Sora was fighting with: a giant key. She stopped suddenly, watched as Sora sliced apart the last heartless with the key. He noticed her gaze on him and turned to her.
"What?" He seemed a little confused at her sudden stop. "Is something wrong?"
"No…" Sasha said after a little pause, "Nothing wrong at all."
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